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been thinking about. Identity and queerness and how the people we know and love shape who we are, and the ways that shows up that aren't just in what we look like -how we dress, how we do our hair, the aesthetics we work towards.

My sister and I look alike, sure. But we also sound a lot alike. Which makes sense, right? I'm sure there's some level of genetics at play, but we also grew up in the same places listening to the same people.

...and then the other day, my roommate met Mess, a mutual friend of mine and my sister's. After Mess & I caught up and Mess headed out, my roommate told me that we sounded alike - not that our voices were that similar, but that we had the same sort of verbal tics and speach patterns.

And sure, I was probably mirroring, I tend to do that, but today I heard myself put an inflection on a word that just...sounded just the was Mess would say it.

Mess was my sister's friend first, and I was in college and knew other queer people by the time Mess and I really became friends in our own right, but it's still been a decade (!) since we really talked the first time...and I was just at the cusp of really understanding myself.

I don't want to be the same person as Mess (ilu, but we are different people), but they are my friend...and they're someone who, for as long as I have known them, has brave amd curious and loving in their queerness.

They've grown in their queerness too, in the past decade, and all of that, to me, is what I want to be.

So of course I sound like them! I hope I sound like my roommate! I hope I sound like my book group: like the three people I've been talking to every Monday for 4 years, and the three people who've joined us in the last couple of years.

I hope I sound like the people I love, that my identity - beyond just what I look like - reflects all these people who are kind and curious and loving and brave.

#Friends #Identity

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A painstaking work !!

#A friend for Mr. Chocolate Man?

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Poll for writers and artists

Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:

Please reblog for sample size!

#Id definitely prefer if you asked first #But if you create something inspired by me ofc I'm going to love it #But if you fucking chew up my work and process it with an algorithm that doesn't understand the pain and joy of creation #Then sincerely fuck you

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@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

#I honestly feel so attacked right now

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character playlists always should have the following:

song that is pretty accurate to the character’s story

song that doesn’t fit the character at all but i was thinking about them while listening to it on loop

song that has one or two lines accurate to the character’s story

song that just kind of is the character’s vibe

song that i desperately wish they would listen to because i personally like it

song that fits the character so well that it’s scary

unsure why this song is in the playlist but it’s so ingrained in my mind as 'part of the playlist' that it would feel weird to remove it

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the thing about parker wearing heels and doing crazy acrobatic climbing shit is it doesn't break the immersion in the slightest because i one hundred percent believe she would wear heels on a job just for funsies.

#Oh for sure #its a challenge level #“yeah I can do a lazer grid blindfolded‚ but I haven't tried in weird footwear” #Parker #Leverage

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we dont talk enough about how awesome folders on the computer are

#People who don't have their documents sorted into very specific and well defined categories frighten me #👀@ you min

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In another universe, Sam Reich is part of Batman's rogues' gallery.

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ˑ  ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ִ ۫ ˑ ֗ ִ ˑ ִ ֗ ִ˖ˑ ּ 𖥔 ۫ ּ ֗ ۪ ⊹ ˑ ִ ֗ ִ˖ ࣪𓂂 𐫰𓈒 ॱ ִ ࣪  ⊹ ᳝ ࣪⠀. ִ ་ ּ ۫ ˑ ֗ ִ ˑ ּ 𖥔 ۫ ּ ⊹ ˑ ִ ֗ ִ˖ ˖

#haiku bot never change #<3

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One advantage of not really having a strong sense of gender identity is that you’re very [shrug emoji] about how people gender you. Sometimes people call me by she/her pronouns and sometimes they go with he/him pronouns and on the internet people often default to they/them, and neither option is entirely right but also, fuck if I know what would be right, and I don’t particularly care. Therefore I’m perfectly happy to outsource my gender identity to the people around me who actually need to figure out which box to put me in. I don’t need to talk about myself in third person, so really my pronouns sound like a you problem.

#Such a fucking mood #Gender

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Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

#Revenge is for fantasies #Do I hope hell is real just for you personally to burn in it? Sure #But by God I will fight for your right for justice in this life

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#BabY MY TIME HAS COME #Jacob Bennett #He's just a weird little queer freak #I have half a dozen small artists I am frothing at the mouth to list but JB is definitely the smallest

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[ID: ao3 tags reading “this isn’t abandoned you faithless cowards”, “quit telling people i’m dead” end id]

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not to have the most mid take about something incredibly major ever but like

i think we can condemn genocide and not also be assholes about jewish people wanting to exist. like. i think those two things can coexist.

#Should yale and harvard and columbia stop funding the israeli gov't or whatever the fuck it is they're doing? yeah #because the israeli gov't. like many gov'ts. is not fantastic. also it's currently perpetrating a genocide. #at the same time #the reaction of the protesting students to the jewish people just existing in the same general vicinity. is fucked up #i believe hamas is a terrorist organization. i also think that no matter what a terrorist organization does. committing genocide #is not an appropriate response #(nor is starting a 2 decade war on people who had nothing to do with the terrorism in the first place)

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people love to complain about sex scenes in tv shows and violence in movies when the real danger is scenes that make you feel second hand embarrassment.

#^^^^^^ #this

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#If you need an ao3 invite dm me #users have a couple that we can each pass on